fiction, poetry, collaborative practice

VASUNDHARA: Dialects in Dialogue

This collaborative experiment, curated by Anjali Purohit, was an attempt to hold a dialogue between the different arts with the aim that when this confluence occurs, the result is a creation that is somehow a little greater than the sum of its parts.

POETRY, MUSIC, DANCE AND ART are but different dialects in the language of self expression.

These four forms were in conversation about women’s lives, about choices we need to make in life, about aloneness and belonging, desire and passion, compromise, loss and solidarity.

Music, dance, poetry and art conversed and responded to each other to create a confluence of shared experience that strove to fulfill a desire for communality and fraternity.

The warp and weft of this collaboration was formed by these strands –

THREE POEMS IN ENGLISH….. Anjali Purohit

Translation into Italian………………Nuria Sala Grau

CLASSICAL BANDISH in the Tradition of the Gwalior Gharana: Neela Bhagwat